Ear-muff



(No Modl.)

A. L. BRITTON.

I EAR MUFF. No. 352-;032. Y Patented Nov. 2, 1886..

WITNESSES:

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ANDREW L. BRITTON, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

EAR-MUFF.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No; 352,032, dated November 2, 1886,

Application filed April 13, 1886. Serial No. 198,664. (No model.)

a citizen of the United States, residing in the I city and county of Philadelphia,State of Pen nsylvania, have inventeda new and useful Irnprovement in Ear-Muffs, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 represents a side elevation of a framefor an ear-muff embodying my invention. Fig. 2 represents a top or plan View thereof. Fig. 3 represents a section of a portion thereof in line 09 00, Fig. 2, on an enlarged scale. 7

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

My invention consists of a novel means-for connecting the frames of the ear-pieces with the head-piece, the same being of simple and inexpensive construct-ion, aswill be hereinafter fully set forth.

Referring to the drawings, A represents the frames of the ear-pieces of an ear-mud, and B represents thehead-piece thereof, the several pieces being formed of wire.

Connected with frames A are ears 0, and

formed on the headpiece, near the ends thereof, are shoulders D. The ends of the headpiece are passed through the ears 0 and the extreme endshammered,forming heads,which, in connectionwith the shoulders D,secure the frames A to the piece B and retain said frames in positiomthe ends ofthe head-piece'forming journals, on which the ear-pieces may-turn, in

order to conform to the sides of the head of 5 the wearer andset nicely in position, it being evident that the means employed for connect ing the ear-pieces with the head-piece are sims pleand inexpensive.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In an ear-muff, the frame A having a single ear, 0, attached to the frame thereof, in combination with the head-piece B, having shoulder D, the end of said piece B passing through the ear 0 and headed, substantially as and for the purpose described.

A. L. BRITTON.

' Witnesses:

JOHNv A. WIEDERSHEIM, A. P. GRANT. 

